5 Practical Ways to Live in the Power of the Spirit Every Day

Honor the Holy Spirit in your day-to-day life.

By Josh Daffern

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The Holy Spirit is often the forgotten member of the Trinity. Christians all know about God, we study about Jesus every week in church, but the Holy Spirit? Not so much. Some choose to reject Him completely and live the Christian life as if the Holy Spirit doesn’t exist. Others seem to glamorize one or two ecstatic experiences above all others and reduce the Holy Spirit to cheap parlor tricks in a worship service.

But one thing we can’t escape as Christians is that Jesus himself pointed to the Holy Spirit and told His disciples to live in the power of the Spirit, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,” (Acts 1:8). What follows that commandment in the book of Acts is a movement unlike anything the world had seen in which a group of ragtag followers of Jesus lived lives of explosive power and turned their world upside down. That same power and potential of the Holy Spirit still exists today for all believers, but we seem to be missing it. A quick survey of Christians and churches could tell all of us that too many don’t seem to be living in the dynamic world-changing power of the Holy Spirit. So how do we do get back to that? How can we see what happened in the book of Acts happen today? What does it look like on a practical level to live in the power of the Spirit everyday? Here are five ways, and to help you remember they spell out the word G.H.O.S.T. (for Holy Ghost).